SWIMMING THE CHANNEL
♦ ... ANOTHER UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT. LONDON, July 23. Jabez Wolffe, after swimming and drifting about for 20 miles, failed to 6wim the Channel. He declares that he will not attempt the feat again.
Inquiry Is made through the American consular ngent at Christchurch as to the whereabouts of Julian Bourdeau, late storekeeper at Queenstown, who was living at Skippers, near Queenstown, in 1904. Mr and Mrs Brinsmead (of piano fame) have celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their wedding day amid much rejoicing. Even this record of wedded life has been beatetn within recent years. The death waa recorded of Mrs William Woolase, Of Laneham, Notts, -whose husband, still living, led her to the altar more than 71 years ago. In August last Mr and Mrs R. W. Crocker, of Taunton, celebrated the seventy-second anniversary of their nuptials, the husband, who has eince died, haying seen 9$ yeare and his wif« 95.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 58
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